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Golden Dawn

The Mathers, the Paris Golden Dawn and Freemasonry, from 1899 to 1904.

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At the Mathers’, Ahathoor Temple87, avenue Mozart, 75016 Paris · Metro Jasmin (9)Private, seen from the streetInitiation1900
The Mathers' villa. It has three entrances (avenue Mozart, rue Ribéra and rue de la Source), hence the impression of several addresses, and housed the Ahathoor Temple No. 7, with the Vault of the Adepts painted by Moina. Rejected by the London temple, Crowley was initiated Adeptus Minor by Mathers in Paris on 16 January 1900, under the motto Parzival. In April he returned and became their envoy against the London revolt.
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Théâtre de la Bodinière18, rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris · Metro Saint-Lazare (3, 12, 13, 14)GoneBackground1899
In March 1899, the Mathers gave public performances of their “Rites of Isis” here. According to his timeline, Crowley attended one of the 1899 performances and met Susan Strong there, though the venue is not named. The setting of the Parisian Golden Dawn, which he joined shortly afterwards. The hall has disappeared.
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Grande Loge de France (1903–1911)42, rue Rochechouart, 75009 Paris · Metro Anvers (2)Private, seen from the streetInitiation1904
The headquarters and temples of the Grande Loge de France from 1903 to 1911. Crowley was received here into the Anglo-Saxon Lodge No. 343: initiated on 8 October 1904, raised to Master Mason on 17 December, registered as a “poet”. In June 1913 he announced his resignation, reproaching the lodge for tolerating co-Masonry.
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The Mathers in Montmartre28, rue Saint-Vincent, 75018 Paris · Metro Lamarck-Caulaincourt (12)Private, seen from the streetLodging1901–1902
Mathers wrote to Yeats from this address on 12 January 1901. At the end of 1902, having fallen out with him, Crowley came here to claim his books and luggage: Mathers returned the books, but not the trunk. The street, in the heart of old Montmartre, has barely changed.
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